Secret Witness offers $1,000 reward for UNR mineral theft

5:50 PM,
Apr. 24, 2013

A stibnite specimen is on display at the American Museum of Natural History, Thursday, April 5, 2007 in New York. The 1,000 pound stibnite with hundreds of sword-like, metallic blue-gray crystals sprouting from a rocky base, was discovered in an antimony mine in Jiangxi Province of southeastern China.

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Secret Witness is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person or people who stole 25 to 30 pounds of stibnite from the Keck Museum at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The museum told authorities on April 16 that the mineral, collected in the White Caps Mine in Manhattan, Nev., was missing. It ...